Rumours of a pre-election merger between the Conservatives and Reform have been denied, but it's effectively what happened in Canada. Having one party on the right to defend privilege has a certain logic. However, at the moment all that is happening is that every second rate Tory rat is deserting a sinking ship as Kemi Kaze does her best to re-establish the Tories as the 'nasty' party.
So I had better resume my search for a bolt hole. With the cooperation of a former Tory candidate, Russia is offering three year 'anti-woke' visas. I have never really understood what 'woke' means, but as I nap a lot I probably don't qualify. Anyway I don't share my gardener's view that Putin is a colossus of the 21st century as he stands up to the Ukranian Nazis. To me he looks like a man searching for some justification to attack the Baltic States.
I wondered if I ought to start in the British Isles. I have had a couple of excellent holidays in Jersey in the past few years (superb fish suppers), but the population density and traffic would get me down. Anyway, I am not rich enough to qualify.
Guernsey is said to be more 'understated', i.e., down market. When I was briefly approving graduate courses for our new medical school, I was astonished to be told that all the staff on a new MSc in Cosmetic Dentistry lived there. I started to probe gently as to how they would get to classes and they told me that some of them had qualified as pilots and they had their own fleet of small planes called DentAir.
Alderney intrigues me. but I have never been there and jt is far too remote. Perhaps I should look at the Isle of Man which has some great scenery and is a less expensive place to live.
